A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it.
Courage
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
Wisdom
… that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day.
Life
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Freedom
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Wisdom